I get to play field service tech, network admin, and repair tech at a small computer shop. Now I get to play web master. Haha. I decided that means it is time to join another forum and this one came to mind. As of right now our company site needs updated, but I don't have a clue what aspx is. I have done some very basic sites in html/css but through dream weaver.. My question is - do I want to use aspx or should I go to html pages? From what I understand aspx is more dynamic (a page with news on it, which our site has, would benefit from this) and I have also noticed that clicking from link to link (home, sales, etc) the page doesn't seem to reload, just switch to new stuff. So guys, what would you do?
Personally I wouldn't use ASPX I would use PHP. There are many tutorials for writing PHP scripts and most subjects are already covered. It's pretty easy to setup and comes with 99% of web hosts.
Second for PHP, plus it tends to be faster. If you've ever done any work with Javscript it will be very easy to pick up. PHP is open source and there are a ton of excellent resources for learning it. W3 schools is a great jumping in point. If nothing else PHP lets you use includes, which can really streamline how you develop each page. When you say using HTML pages... do you mean creating individual pages versus using a content management system like Wordpress? You can have individual "HTML-style" pages using PHP without using a CMS. Another options would be to use a website builder/managed system like Weebly or Squarespace. They've been ramped up lately to handle quite a few options.
if it aint broke don't fix it - aspx and php do broadly similar things. They're scripting languages that you can use to add a bit if programming to your site, that's all.
+1 PHP it tends to be used more and broader giving it a bigger support base. Also when you say your website tends not to load this sounds like the website has been visited many time by your computer without clearing the cache and history on your browser. Do those two things and then check if each page is loading when clicked upon if so then this will only work once or until the cache and history is cleared again. Just in case also flush your DNS by opening up ms-command prompt and typing ipconfig /flushdns . GOODLUCK